LPG, roadtax, and pre March 01

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Tue 17 Dec 2002 12:37
LPG, roadtax, and pre March 01 - mrmole
I notice that if your car runs on LPG then you can get a reduction in the roadtax. However, just my luck, I bought my X reg car in Feb 01 and it seems that I can only get the reduction if I had got it from March 01.

Is this indeed the case and am I just going to have to put up with paying the full price (all for the sake of buying one week too early!).

Any advise is gratefully recieved.

Many thanks.
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Tue 17 Dec 2002 14:51
LPG, roadtax, and pre March 01 - nick
I believe this is the case. I converted my car and checked with DVLA. It isn't retrospective, so you'll just have to be pleased with only giving 6p per litre to the chancellor.
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Tue 17 Dec 2002 17:07
LPG, roadtax, and pre March 01 - mrmole
At least that is the case, it rarely costs more than £10 to fill the gas tank. What makes this worse is that the government give you rebates for LPG conversions, but only to a small list of conventional cars. So because I do not drive a conventional car, and because I bought my car one week early, I am a little worse off.

Oh well. I suppose if they introduce the rumored congestion charging in my city I might not have to pay anything.
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